Schlagwort: 1984
-
Lynn Walsh: The choice before the Labour Party
[Militant International Review, No 27, Autumn 1984, p. 2-9] By Lynn Walsh The outcome of the miners’ strike will be an issue of over-riding importance for this year’s annual Labour Party conference. The preliminary agenda includes over two dozen resolutions on the strike, particularly condemning the brutal tactics being used by the police on Thatcher’s…
-
Peter Taaffe: Russian economy: choked by bureaucracy
(Militant No. 688, 24 February 1984 p. 8-9) The death of Andropov and his replacement by the even greyer and older Chernenko has been the occasion for the hirelings of capital in Fleet Street to predictably point to the deficiencies of the Stalinist regime, its totalitarian character, massive corruption, etc. By this means they seek…
-
Peter Taaffe: Labour’s disastrous coalition
(Militant No. 694, 6 April 1984, p. 10) By Peter Taaffe The capitalist media now has a conscious policy of playing down workers‘ struggles abroad for fear of encouraging similar movements in Britain. They have ignored the colossal ferment taking place in Southern Ireland, for example, which can exercise an enormous effect on workers‘ struggles…
-
Lynn Walsh: Police-state strategy used against miners
[Militant No. 695, 13th April 1984 p. 7] By Lynn Walsh Up to 8,000 police a day from forty-one out of Britain’s forty-three authorities have been mobilised by the Tory government in the biggest strike-breaking operation since the 1926 general strike. Going far beyond any previous post-war government, Thatcher is deploying the police, para-military fashion,…
-
Lynn Walsh: Another hatchet-job on Militant
[Militant 704, 15th June 1984, p. 12] By Lynn Walsh Militant, A new book by Michael Crick of Channel 4 News, will be eagerly seized by Labour’s enemies as ammunition for stepping-up the witch-hunt against the Marxists in the labour movement. Even prior to publication next Monday, excerpts have appeared in the Guardian and The…
-
Lynn Walsh: Thatcher at bay
[Militant No. 709, 20th July 1984, p. 6] By Lynn Walsh The miners‘ strike has shattered the illusion of Thatcher’s impregnable majority. Preoccupied with class battle in the coalfields, where they thought they would win a quick and easy victory, the Tories have committed a series of disastrous blunders on other fronts: on Liverpool (forced…
-
Lynn Walsh: Qaddafi terror strikes in Britain
[Militant No. 697, 27th April 1984, p. 13] By Lynn Walsh With a violent shock, television pictures of the horrifying shooting in St James’s Square have brought Libya’s political conflicts to the attention of everyone in Britain. The unprovoked shooting of anti-Qaddafi demonstrators from the embassy, and the killing of a policewoman, have aroused horror…
-
Lynn Walsh: Six expelled in Blackburn
[Militant No. 682, 13th January 1984, p. 1] “It was an ugly meeting and a very ugly decision!” This was just one of the angry comments of party activists after Monday’s decision by Blackburn Labour Party to expel six Militant supporters. The comrades defended themselves against a barrage of fabricated stories, smears and outright lies…
-
Peter Taaffe: Andropov and after …
[Militant International Review, No 25, February 1984, p. 11-19] Just before he died Moscow wags had already passed verdict on Andropov’s brief fifteen months in power. A variation on an old joke read as follows: Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov are travelling on a red train. The train breaks down. “Fix it” orders Stalin. They…
-
Bob Labi: Marxism and the Nicaraguan Revolution
[Militant International Review, No 27, September 1984, p. 12-20] Arising out of the Autumn 1983 issue of the Militant International Review, which was dedicated exclusively to the revolutionary process in Latin America, we are pleased to see that there has been quite a lot of discussion among our readers. One of the issues which has…